Sleight of Dev

Sleight of Dev

Websites and web apps for businesses and performers.

You may have arrived from a site I built. I am Jim. I work on my own, and you deal with me from the first email to the day your site goes live. Tell me what your site needs to do and I’ll tell you what it will take.


What you get

  • Design and build

    I design and build it myself. No template dressed up as bespoke, and your job is not handed to somebody else.

  • On your own domain

    I set up the domain and hosting. You never have to find out what a nameserver is.

  • Your words stay yours

    Change your own text without having to ring me: prices, dates, or a new job you have just taken on.

  • Support after launch

    Going live is not the end of the job. If something needs fixing or changing later, I am still here.


It keeps working when you are not

These are not brochures that sit there. They run on Cloudflare’s edge, they update themselves, and the moving parts are my problem rather than yours.

  • Fast because of where it runs

    Your site sits on Cloudflare’s network and is served from whichever of their data centres is nearest the person looking at it. Every site on my work page answers in under two tenths of a second.

  • It updates itself

    BTN Crew’s recent jobs come straight off their Instagram, refreshed every six hours. They post the way they always did, and the site keeps up on its own.

  • Nothing to keep patched

    Forms, redirects and scheduled jobs run on the same edge network as the pages. There is no server sitting somewhere costing you money and waiting for an update.


How it works

  1. 1

    Tell me what the site needs to do

    Who it is for, what it has to do, and when you need it. A few sentences is plenty.

  2. 2

    I come back with a plan

    What I would build, what it costs, and how long it will take. You see all three before you commit to anything.

  3. 3

    I build it

    You can see it on a live link as I build it, not in a slide deck at the end.

  4. 4

    It goes live

    On your domain, with access handed over and a walkthrough of how to use it.


Tell me about your project

A little context makes my reply more useful. I read every one of these myself.

A date, a season, or a good guess.

A ballpark is fine. It saves us both time if we are miles apart, and I’ll say so straight away if the budget does not fit the work.

What it has to do, and who it is for. Plain English is perfect.

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